Missing title

April 15, 2006 10:15 AM

You forgot to include a title, please correct this.

Does it really take that much work to think of a pyramid-related lame joke?
posted by cellphone to etiquette/policy at 10:15 AM (36 comments total)

I am OUTRAGED.

No, wait. The other thing.
posted by Gator at 10:28 AM on April 15, 2006

Tut tut.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 10:48 AM on April 15, 2006

*yawn*
posted by keijo at 10:49 AM on April 15, 2006

What's the objection? The title isn't descriptive or relevant enough? Alas there aren't enough vexillologists in the world to flag the posts that criticism applies to.
posted by nthdegx at 10:57 AM on April 15, 2006

A monumental mistake amid his peers.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 10:58 AM on April 15, 2006

I have just thrown my computer across the room in impotent fury over this.
posted by interrobang at 10:59 AM on April 15, 2006

thirteenkiller is a girl. This joke will work exactly once.
posted by jessamyn at 11:15 AM on April 15, 2006 [1 favorite]

I'm so goddam confused.
posted by cortex at 11:29 AM on April 15, 2006

I don't get it.
posted by grouse at 11:46 AM on April 15, 2006

A monumental mistake amid my peers.
See? It works twice.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 11:57 AM on April 15, 2006

These pyramids... they vibrate?
posted by keijo at 12:03 PM on April 15, 2006

I'm quoting SCIENCE (pyramid edition)
posted by found missing at 12:08 PM on April 15, 2006

thirteenkiller, you have failed us.

Now let us decide the fate of the accused.
posted by Stauf at 12:21 PM on April 15, 2006

Could someone tell me what the joke is? Is there a joke? I don't understand any of this.
posted by puke & cry at 12:29 PM on April 15, 2006

the main joke is: thirteenkiller, instead of finding a snappy title for her post, instead placed the boilerplate text in the title field. It is, as I said, a joke that is funny once because if everyone does it it's lame and sucks. I happened to say that, less clearly, next to a sentence about thirteenkiller being a girl which may have been confusing to some people.
posted by jessamyn at 12:46 PM on April 15, 2006

Contents: One (1) Joke, trace amounts of Reference. Use, then discard packaging.
posted by fleacircus at 12:47 PM on April 15, 2006

Oh, it's like the "freeform, go nuts" joke. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha.
posted by grouse at 12:56 PM on April 15, 2006

I was considering calling this out, too. It's kind of rare, but I've seen this style of "joke" a few times. Things along the lines of "aren't titles silly?" or "pointless title". Happens more in AskMe than in the blue. I could kind of understand if it only showed up in the title bar, but not so much now that it is embiggened above the post.

It's not an outrageous transgression, but I think that people who do it aren't considering those of us who read the site via rss. When I see MeFi, I see a list of titles, not the posts themselves. So as a matter of etiquette... yeah, it would be nice if he title was at least tangentially related to the topic of the post.

I brought this up once before on AskMe, but it was (rightly) deleted. I thought some spammer had managed to hijack the rss feed when I saw "Short titless - Paris Hilton". The title isn't as much of a throw away field as you think. Maybe the form should have a few words to reflect that.
posted by team lowkey at 1:11 PM on April 15, 2006

Oh, ok. I get it. I'm not sure how people could find the default title funny, but there you go. I thought it was some pyramid-related joke that you'd have to know alot about pyramids to get.
posted by puke & cry at 1:11 PM on April 15, 2006

jessamyn is a girl. This joke will work exactly once.
posted by nthdegx at 1:12 PM on April 15, 2006

Your mother is a girl. Zing!
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 1:57 PM on April 15, 2006

Your girl is a zing. Mother!
posted by Stauf at 2:59 PM on April 15, 2006

Clearly I overestimated by a factor of infinity percent.
posted by nthdegx at 3:18 PM on April 15, 2006

Wait! So it works in *other* threads? This thread will self destruct in three... two...
posted by nthdegx at 3:20 PM on April 15, 2006

thirteenkiller is a girl!?

Seriously?

Wow.
posted by delmoi at 5:24 PM on April 15, 2006

that title certainly didn't give me much to chew on
posted by pyramid termite at 5:42 PM on April 15, 2006

Haha, pyramid termite, your name came up a lot when I searched for prior posts about Bosnian pyramids.
posted by thirteenkiller at 6:06 PM on April 15, 2006

I am not a girl. This joke will not work. ... Shit.
posted by blacklite at 7:17 PM on April 15, 2006

i still have the first thirteen year old girl i killed.
posted by quonsar at 7:34 PM on April 15, 2006

I still have the second thirteen year old girl quonsar killed.
posted by shnoz-gobblin at 7:53 PM on April 15, 2006

couldn't you guys afford a doll?
posted by pyramid termite at 8:21 PM on April 15, 2006

I'm still scared by all of you. This will continue to work throughout the duration of my life.
posted by blue_beetle at 8:40 PM on April 15, 2006

i heart thirteenkiller.

tie similar bow
posted by exlotuseater at 9:16 PM on April 15, 2006

This thread is awash with jokes I don't quite understand. Strangely, this still makes me laugh.
posted by Acey at 10:05 AM on April 16, 2006

*Continues to laugh while furtively glancing around*
posted by squirrel at 2:57 PM on April 16, 2006

Omigodz afemale!!

*polishes toy lightsaber*
posted by scarabic at 3:38 PM on April 16, 2006